Mail-bag-delivering apparatus.



J. C.'BLANTON & [1.]. SEXTON.

MAIL BAG DELIVERING APPARATUS. APPLICATION HLED JAN.18. 1917.

Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

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JOHN C. BLANTON AN 'LD DOUGLAS J. SEXTON, OF FREEMAN, WEST VIRGINIA.

MAIL-BAG-DELIVERING APPARATUS.

Original application filed June 3, 1916, Serial No. 101,623. Divided and this application filed January 18,

1917. Serial No. 143,061.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN C. BLANTON and DOUGLAS J. SnXToN, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Freeman, in the county of Mercer and State of West Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Mail-Bag Delivering Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to means for transferring a mail bag from a moving car to a track stand or vice versa. The present invention is a division of an application filed by us June 3, 1916, Serial No. 101,623, and relates more particularly to the track stand included in the delivering apparatus.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specifi cation in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional line 11, Fig. 2;

Fig.2 is a front view of a mail bag delivering apparatus embodying our invention;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the means for retaining the mail bag on the stand ready for detachment by the receiving means on the car;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective view showing the means for receiving and retaining a mail bag on the track stand.

The track stand is to be employed with devices on the car 10, which may be of any approved construction having a door 11,

plan view on the which has mounted thereon a rock shaft 12 having bearings on the car across the doorway at the front by any suitable means, such as brackets 13. As described in our previous application a mail bag supporting arm 15 is slidable transversely in the shaft 12 in stand adapted to be placed in fixed position addition to rocking in a vertical plane with said shaft, the arm having a handle 17 at its inner end for manipulating the same. At the outer end of the arm 15 is a cross arm 20, here shown as having at one end a retaining hook 21. The opposite end of the cross arm is provided with a head designated generally by the numeral 22 adapted to support a mail bag for delivering the same to a track stand. To hang the mail bag on the head 22, a ring 24 is provided having a snaphook 25 adapted to engage a ring 26, held hook, said cross arm being pivoted at the center as at 47 to turn in a horizontal plane. Retractile' springs 48 are secured each at one end to the opposite ends of the cross arm 46 and at their opposite ends, said springs are secured to a fixed pin 49 or the like on the main arm 43.

On the arm 44 is formed a head. 22 in all respects the same as the head 22, including a retainer 23, corresponding with the retainer fully described in our previous application whereby a mail bag may be suspended by the described elements 24, 25, 26, from the head 22 of the stand.

When the arm 15 is projected to receive a mail bag, the hook 21 of the cross arm 20 will readily pass into the suspending ring 24 on the arm 44 of the stand 42, and the engagement of said ring 24 with the arm 15 will release the said ring from the retaining device 23. Similarly, if a bag 29 be suspended from the cross'arm 20 on the car, the hook 45 of arm 43 on the stand 42, will pass into the suspending ring 24 until said ring strikes the cross arm 46 which will release the retaining device 28 and detach the suspended mail bag. Any unequal contact of the ring 24 with the arm 46 will be taken along a railway track, and means on said stand to deliver and to recelve a mail bag, said means including a lateral arm on the stand, a cross arm on the lateral arm, in-

ward from the end thereof, and pivoted to turn, and spring means yieldingly engaging Patented Oct. 23, 1917.

the said pivoted crossarm and tending to return the same after of. V

I JOHN C. BLANTON. V

DOUGLAS J. SEXTON.

pivotal movement there- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents'each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. i 

